Avalanche! The 1910 Great Northern Railway Disaster
Directed by Malcolm Keithley2024 65m[History](/on-demand/category/history)
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In the late winter of 1910, a relentless blizzard trapped two Great Northern Railway trains, bound from Spokane to Seattle, in the rugged Cascade Mountains. Six days of frantic efforts to reach the passengers and crews failed. Early in the morning on March 1st, an avalanche one-half mile wide and fifteen feet deep crashed down from the mountainside during a thunderstorm. It swept the trains off the tracks, killing at least ninety-six people.
